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To: Mrs. Don-o
Nice...doge....my question was based only on David and Bathsheba....no other wives in the picture. Just the two of them.
48 posted on 03/06/2018 9:43:58 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone
Dodge? You are not understanding this: the answer is contingent upon their actual situation. That is not a dodge.

If --- to make it into a totally fictitious situation, not the one recounted in the Bible --- David has just one living wife, and that is Bathsheba, and she has only one living husband (David) then no problem, they can both become Catholics. They could enter the Catholic Church by Baptism, as everybody does, and their marriage could be convalidated (recognized by the Church) after their baptism.

If (as in their actual marital situation as documented in the Bible) Bathsheba AND SEVEN OTHER WOMEN are claiming to be David's wives, he'd have to faithful to his first wife on the basis of monogamous marriage.

The Catholic Church doesn't allow the practice of polygamy.

Does yours? How would your church handle polygamy? Would it be OK?

51 posted on 03/06/2018 10:12:37 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (“An error which is not resisted is approved; a truth which is not defended is suppressed.” Leo XII)
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